Mateusz Makuch – ABSOLUTE WINNER, Violin

Mateusz is a violinist. He was born 15.10.1994 (30 years old) in Poland.
He is faculty at the University of New England in Boston during the Morningside Music Bridge Program in the United States.
From 2018 to 2022, a violinist collaborating with the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 2024 he won the first prize Fine Master Violins International Violin Competition in Melbourne, Australia and the first prize Gold International Classical Music Competition, Netherlands
In 2021, he completed his doctoral studies.
Also in 2021, he performed as a violinist with the Penderecki Trio, founded by Elżbieta Penderecka, wife of Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki.
In the 2017/2018 academic year, he was a student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.
Named Poland’s Cultural Personality of the Year in 2019.
The only Polish participant in the filming of the Hollywood movie Tár, which won a Golden Globe and received seven Oscar nominations, with Cate Blanchett in the lead role.
He has performed at venues including New York’s Lincoln Center, Salle Cortot at the Paris Conservatory and has been invited as a soloist to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the renowned Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 2022, he performed for the Polish Presidential Couple at the Belweder Palace.
Two-time finalist of the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition.
Two-time recipient of the „Młoda Polska” Scholarship Program.
Finalist in the Doctoral Program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Recipient of the Grand Prix from the Center for Artistic Education.
Repeatedly awarded scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
Winner and laureate of many prestigious international competitions in the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, France, the United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Ukraine, and Poland.
Mateusz plays a more than 200-year-old French violin made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in 1823, on loan from the Polish National Collection.